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- Subject: Re: Exception Conditions
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 22:11:26 +0200
- From: Torsten Scherer <itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
- In-Reply-To: <m0qGyDz-0001EFC@letni.LoneStar.org>; from "Evan K. Langlois" at Jun 23, 94 5:47 pm
-
- > The patch for exceptional conditions is interesting, but can someone
- > explain what an exception condition is? Would be something like, someone
- > closing a pipe your reading? Or a media change on the drive for which
- > you are doing IO? Or maybe a loss of carrier?
-
- Well, as I said, I merely did it so that Kay Roemer can use it in his
- socket interface. Some net-protocols define the use of urgent out-of-band
- data, which does not get queued in the normal input buffers, but is passed
- to the client directly. That's an exceptional condition for example.
-
- > How do read the condition? Fread?
-
- Well, for sockets, where you know that an exceptional conditions means the
- arrival of out-of-band data, you can use the same read or receive call as
- for normal data, only with a special flag set. For other devices I must admit
- that I don't know it. Not that I've ever heard of them being used at all, but
- then I haven't heard so may things... ;-)
-
- > Is it possible to use an exception condition with Fselect, to "wait for
- > carrier" or to detect the loss of such (so, could you wait for a change
- > in the carrier status?)
-
- Yes, you can call Fselect() to explicitly sleep until an exceptional
- condition happens on the selected file. For your modem problem - as I said
- above - you would have to define something to determine *what* kind of
- thing has happened, probably some more ioctl() calls to check for carrier
- or RI or so.
-
- > If so, then this would be very useful indeed.
-
- I hope so. :-)
-
- To make it totally clear: *NONE* of the up-to-date drivers supports them now!
-
- ciao,
- TeSche
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